"Fasting [during Ramadan] is one of the most powerful means to educate the
human spirit for jihad. Fasting involves a spiritual effort to act in a way
contrary to what is accepted, and to completely abandon desires... It also
schools the Muslim in patience, resilience, endurance, and sacrifice, which are
all traits of the jihad fighter...
lees verder http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/6656.htm